Charlie Lyons

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

Artemis II astronauts are in the white room! Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen are in the picture. Last three astronauts to do this before today: Gene Cernan, Ron Evans, and Harrison Schmitt.

The Artemis II astronauts, now suited up for launch, are headed to the launch pad. The crew includes NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @AstroVicGlover, and @Astro_Christina, and @CSA_ASC astronaut @Astro_Jeremy.

The Rotten Fish Nebula, The Shark Nebula & Wolf's Cave Nebula in Cepheus, reprocessed. #Astrophotography #Astronomy

定番のNGC2177かもめ星雲です 薄雲で没コマが多かった…… 冬の星雲群も撮り納め！ 来月も仕事の休みの巡りが悪いけど銀河撮りたい！ 撮影データはALTへ

The Baby Eagle Nebula LBN 777 dins el núvol molecular de Taure. Samyang 135mm a f2.8 📷ASI294mc 📌Manresa, bortle 6 #Astrophotography

【2/12_木星】 「ずっと上の方にある星はなに？」と孫に聞かれて木星を久しぶりに撮影。すると、カリストが木星面を通過していました。黒っぽく見えるから衛星の影かと思いきや…カリストって木星面よりだいぶ暗いんですね😅 写真を見せて孫に説明します😊

1.3×1.7倍でのモザイク撮影

【月齢5.6_晴れの海～静かの海付近】 1/24、19時15分頃撮影の月面拡大カラー画像です。晴れの海では通称へび山脈と呼ばれるスミルノフ～リスター尾根が、静かの海ではゴーストクレーター ラモント周辺に広がる複雑なしわ状地形が目立っています。アラゴα、βのドームも良く見えていました。

The Orion Trapezium Cluster, a compact young #star cluster, resides at the heart of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42). Its intense brightness and high luminosity make it stand out. Named after its four brightest stars forming a trapezoidal shape, the cluster is a remarkable sight.

The Orion Nebula

Capturas del 11 de enero. Comenzamos con la rotación de Jupiter, aprovechando su oposición (10 de enero), para poder obtener buenos detalles. Quedamos muy contentos con mis hijos con quienes hicimos las tomas, ademas de poder capturar la aparición de la GMR. @oalmuruguay

1/2 Thanks to everyone that turned out tonight at Tiptree Star Gazers free stargazing event. We were blown away with how many of you turned out tonight at such short notice. So many of you came over in a steady flow all night, that we estimate at least 100 turned out. @tiptree

ふたご座流星群の徹夜観測で撮影した、M81,82です！！ M81に比べてあまり目立たない82ですが、爆発的な星形成が行われる「スターバースト銀河」に分類されます。 M82の暗黒星雲と、M81の綺麗な渦が好き！

My youngest (Tor, 14) took charge of the scope last night. Here are her pictures from 25 Dec. Messier 42 - Orion Nebula Messier 45 - Pleiades

Finally, on Christmas night, a clear sky and an opportunity for some astrophotography. This was 30 minutes on M42 using my modified Canon Rebel T7 and an Rokinon 135. Happy days.

@AndySaunders_1 @NASAArtemis @NASA @NASAKennedy @esa @ESA_History @AstroVicGlover @astro_reid @Astro_Christina @Astro_Jeremy Even as a nine year old kid, I watched the flight and was aware of it's significance. To me, it was perhaps the most audacious of the Apollo flights. I am looking foward to the flight of Artemis II, but one request, can we say something a bit more poetic than ' go for TLI'

57 years ago today - December 21, 1968. Apollo 8. The very first photograph of the whole Earth taken by one of us 🌎 If all goes to plan, in the next few months, the first such photograph in over half a century will be taken, on Artemis II.

My shot of the constellation of Orion, the Hunter, rising above the skies over Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge last night. Using a H-alpha modded Nikon D800 and a 50mm lens.

@davidson_jon Leeds v Crystal Palace. Come on you Leeds!!!

Another Saturday at Leeds Jenni picked up for Christmas and has another part of her inheritance on. Possibly my favourite top and some incredible memories of those days MOT

Great fun last night at the Jethro Tull Christmas concert at Peterborough Cathederal. Entertaining performances by the group, plus Marc Almond, Sir Lloyd Grossman and special mention to the choir of Peterborough Cathederal who performed a stirring rendition of 'Gaudete'.